Gotta like this guy’s style. Not only is he on the right side of the issues, but he hasn’t given up.
Category: Sustainability
Plato on Education
It appears that Plato would have taken a rather dim view of what we’re doing here in the United States. There is no doubt that American education is in decline, but there is a lively debate as to why that …
The Future of Humanity
“Bifurcate” means to split into two branches, so “bifurcate in two directions” redundant. Of course, that is a trivial criticism. Here’s a more important one: Musk wants us to believe that migrating the human race into space, with all its …
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“We All Have the Same God”
If any significant number of religious people looked at this subject the way Mohammad Ali did, we wouldn’t have the vast oceans of hatred and cruelty that dominate the human race.
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Investing Oneself Into Others’ Lives
A corollary to this quote from 20th Century author and poet Charles Bukowski is: “It shouldn’t have to have happen to you for it to matter to you.” FWIW, this is just another way of looking at the term “woke.” …
Wealth Gap and the Collapse of the Environment
Sadly, there is no mechanism by which this civilization can rethink the way it apportions wealth and power. As suggested at left, this is the reason for the ever-widening gap between rich and poor, not to mention the deterioration of …
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Tolstoy on Being Human
Here’s another way of defining “woke,” i.e., feeling the pain of others.
If God Is Good, ……
To answer the reader’s question at left: People have been talking about this since the dawn of the spoken word. The usual argument is that God gave us free will, which means that it’s up to us to choose one …
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Some of Us Are Adamant that the Winter Holiday Season Is About Christmas
A reader notes about the meme here: Merry Christmas brings an awkward silence when I say it. Oh well, too bad. The holiday IS Christmas. Yes, the holiday is Christmas, except for the dozens of other religions that celebrate holidays …
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In Terms of Spirituality We Separate Ourselves from Other Animals, But Why?
Most adherents to the world’s religions believe that human beings are, in essence, souls that go on to some form of afterlife when they die. Yet, as far as I’m aware, there are no such provisions made for our fellow …
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